Here's a clever idea. Inky-Linky lets you add QR codes to the margins of a web page - so that when you print out the page you can scan the codes to reach all the links it references.

What users will like about Inky-Linky is its simplicity. It is a bookmarklet - a JavaScript snippet that you add to your browser's bookmark bar simply by dragging a link. You can then click in to add QR codes to a webpage prior to printing. The codes will appear in the margins on either side of the page once printed.

It came about because I wanted to make it easy to visit a link from a printed page, and also wanted to see if I could find an actual useful use for the much (rightly) maligned QR code.

The link in this sentence goes to a site that collects photos of QR codes in unlikely, inappropriate and amusing places and which will raise a smile whether or not you are a fan of QR codes.

QR codes seem to be a necessary evil, and so does committing the bits of a webpage to paper. If you really have to print something out, then adding a QR code at least keeps the page interactive - well sort of interactive. So the next time you have some paper handouts created by printing web pages then remember Inky-Linky.

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